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Health insurers limit coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning their medical necessity
(www.cbsnews.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2024
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The article makes it sound like the insurance will no longer approve a higher end prosthetic rather than something that is not as feature-rich.
That's not what it said. If you read through the entire article, you find statistics about how many people can't get prosthetics at all because they aren't considered necessary or they can't afford the co-payment or they have to take out a loan.
But even if what you said were the focus, that would be equally messed up. The article opens with the story of a man who got his artificial leg replaced for many years and only recently did they try to reject the hardware that he needs, the hardware that his doctor prescribes... What kind of screwy bait and switch shit would that be? Your insurance company should not be deciding how you live.
The article also mentions that prosthetic limbs can be repossessed. Talk about a dystopia...
Oh you can't pay for your legs anymore, guess we have to take them away.
The mob will just break your legs; you still get to keep them.
That’s too reminiscent of king Leopold for the 21st century
Every day, we stray closer and closer to the dystopian media…
User fees are cruel barriers to proper healthcare. We see it even in some parts of Canada (healthcare in Canada isn't uniform, region-to-region, as it was relegated to provinces to define so the cruel conservatives couldn't unilaterally kill it, and so they just gut their own region's support to the bare letter of the law and thus implement user fees and premiums).
it's a limb replacement, the only ones everyone should wear is the fanciest ones unless they specifically request a simpler one.